Colleagues, I’ve been afflicted by some “bug” for most of the past week, so my intended piece for ThTh44 [The Glory of Easter in a Theology of the Cross] didn’t get finished. So I’ve gone to the “barrel” for what follows. It’s an essay I was asked to do for a publication in Australia when I was …
Response to Luther Research
Colleagues, [NB: We perpetrated a numbering glitch with last week’s ThTh. Dated March 25 we sent it out as #41, but we’d already used that number on our March 18 issue. Thus our March 25 issue really was #42. So make the change if you give any attention to such things. Today’s edition is #43.] The text …
Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son in the Old and New Testaments: A Jewish Scholar’s Report
THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE BELOVED SON. The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity, Jon D. Levenson. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1993. xiv, 257. The sub-title–child sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity–is enough to get your attention, even if it is “transformed!” But I had never even heard of the title, let alone the …
Two responses re: The Vatican and Me
This past week we received these two responses to Thursday Theology #37, my piece called “The Vatican and Me”. The first is a letter to Ed about me from Lou Smith. The second is a sermon by Carolyn Schneider. Somehow I’m sure there’ll be more discussion about this topic after you’ve read these two pieces. Please feel …
Christian Callings: Care & Redemption of Creation
Colleagues, Here follows the text of a presentation I made this morning (March 11) to the Lutheran Professional Church Workers Conference of St. Louis. Not everyone of the 30-plus people attending was pleased. So proceed with a grain of salt. Peace & Joy! Ed Schroeder Christian Calling: “The Care and Redemption of all that you [God] have …
The Care and Redemption of God’s Creation
or God’s Two Projects in the One World: Care and Redemption Capitalizing on the Image of God as Ambidextrous A Proposal for using Luther’s Two Kingdoms Theology in Daily Life Edward H. Schroeder [An Essay presented to the Lutheran Professional Church Workers Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, March 11, 1999] 1. Near the end of Luther’s life …
Augsburg Confession & Luther’s Catechisms
Colleagues, I’m coming to the end of the Winter Quarter in teaching 15 students about the Lutheran Confessions here in St. Louis. The course is an offering of the Lutheran School of Theology here in town, a ministry of the Metro St. Louis Coalition of ELCA congregations. For the upcoming Easter term the coalition asks for one …
Union With Christ
Colleagues, In case you’ve not yet heard, there’s a new look, a new book, in Luther research. Here’s a review of it FYI. Peace and Joy! Ed Schroeder Union With Christ. The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther, Carl E. Braaten & Robert W. Jenson, eds. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans. 1998. ix, 182, paper. [No price listed]. Every …
The Vatican and me
In the February 1999 issue, “The Lutheran” ran a one paragraph article on page 42: “The Vatican, in a ‘Final Declaration’ statement, warned that the world is facing a crisis in faith provoked in part by the feminist doctrine that men and women are absolute equals. ‘Generally throughout the world, there is evidence of a weakening of faith …
Romans 5:12-19 February 11, 1999
Colleagues, Last week I received the following letter. The writer, a Seminex alum, pastors a Lutheran congregation in New York state. If his question is not your cuppa tea, tune in next week. D.v., Robin Morgan will be on deck.Cheers! Ed Schroeder “Dear Ed,I need a little teaching now. The First Sunday in Lent is approaching and …